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Châtelet
Châtelet is the beating heart of the Paris Métro - the world's largest underground station complex, where five Métro lines converge beneath the geographic centre of the city.
Gare du Nord
Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in Europe, handling over 700,000 passengers a day.
Saint-Lazare
Saint-Lazare is one of Paris's great transport hubs - five Métro lines, national rail services to Normandy and the west, and an RER E connection that crosses the city.
Charles de Gaulle - Étoile
Charles de Gaulle-Étoile is where three Métro lines converge beneath the Arc de Triomphe - one of France's most visited monuments.
Opéra
Opéra station sits at the foot of the Palais Garnier - Charles Garnier's extraordinary Second Empire opera house, completed in 1875, which gave Gaston Leroux the setting for The Phantom of the Opera.
Bastille
Bastille is where French history and Parisian nightlife collide on the same square.
Trocadéro
Trocadéro provides the most celebrated view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Concorde
Concorde station sits beneath one of the most historically charged public spaces in Paris.
Louvre - Rivoli
Louvre-Rivoli is the dedicated Métro station for the world's most visited art museum.
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre
Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre serves one of the quietest and most beautiful gardens in central Paris.
Montparnasse - Bienvenüe
Montparnasse-Bienvenüe is the gateway to the TGV network serving western and south-western France, and with four Métro lines it is one of Paris's busiest interchanges.
Gare de Lyon
Gare de Lyon is the gateway to the south of France, Italy and Switzerland.
Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame puts you at the foot of the Île de la Cité - the island in the Seine where Paris was born - and at the edge of the Latin Quarter, one of the oldest student neighbourhoods in Europe.
Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau
Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau sits at the midpoint of the world's most famous avenue, flanked by two Beaux-Arts palaces built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition.
Odéon
Odéon sits at the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Left Bank neighbourhood that was the intellectual and artistic capital of 20th-century Paris.
République
République is one of the great crossroads of Paris - five Métro lines and a vast square dominated by the Marianne statue, the bronze symbol of the French Republic installed in 1883.
Madeleine
Madeleine station sits at the base of the Église de la Madeleine - a neo-classical building that looks exactly like the Parthenon and was intended, at various points in its construction history, to be a temple, a bank and a military hall of fame before finally being consecrated as a church in 1842.
Pigalle
Pigalle has been Paris's entertainment quarter for over a century - the Moulin Rouge opened in 1889 on Boulevard de Clichy, three minutes walk west of the station.
Père Lachaise
Père Lachaise is the gateway to the world's most visited cemetery - a 44-hectare city of the dead on the slopes of the Ménilmontant hill where some of the greatest names in art, literature, music and philosophy are buried.
Anvers
Anvers is the foot-of-the-hill Métro station for Sacré-Cœur - the white travertine basilica that dominates the Paris skyline from the summit of the Butte Montmartre.
Nation
Nation is one of the great interchange stations of the eastern Métro - four lines converge on a vast circular square dominated by the Triumph of the Republic, a colossal bronze sculptural group installed in 1899.
Château de Vincennes
Château de Vincennes is the eastern terminus of Line 1, depositing you directly in front of one of the finest surviving medieval royal fortresses in Europe.
Arts et Métiers
Arts et Métiers contains one of the most extraordinary platform designs on any metro system in the world.
Strasbourg – Saint-Denis
Strasbourg-Saint-Denis sits beneath two of the finest surviving triumphal arches in Europe.
Oberkampf
Oberkampf is the Métro station for one of Paris's most authentic and consistently excellent bar neighbourhoods.
Abbesses
Abbesses is the deepest station in Paris - 36 metres underground - and one of only two stations on the entire Métro network to retain the original Hector Guimard Art Nouveau glass canopy entrance from the early 1900s.
Lamarck – Caulaincourt
Lamarck-Caulaincourt is one of the most architecturally unusual stations on the Paris Métro.
Hôtel de Ville
Hôtel de Ville station sits between two of the most important cultural destinations in central Paris.
Cité
Cité station sits on the Île de la Cité - the island in the Seine where Paris was founded by the Parisii Gallic tribe around 250 BC.
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay RER station serves the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
Invalides
Invalides station opens onto the grand esplanade in front of Les Invalides - the complex of buildings commissioned by Louis XIV in 1670 as a hospital and retirement home for wounded soldiers, now housing Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb and the Musée de l'Armée.
Cambronne
Cambronne is a quiet Line 6 station in the 15th arrondissement - Paris's largest arrondissement and one of its most genuinely residential.
Denfert-Rochereau
Denfert-Rochereau is the gateway to the Paris Catacombs - the vast underground ossuary containing the bones of approximately 6 million Parisians, transferred from overflowing city cemeteries between 1786 and 1860.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés station puts you at the centre of one of Paris's most culturally charged neighbourhoods.
Belleville
Belleville is a Lines 2 and 11 interchange at the bottom of the Belleville hill - one of the most genuinely multicultural neighbourhoods in Paris.